My Formal Display

Thomas_J.

This is my formal display for the month of Oct. at our monthly meeting.
Each month our club asks someone to put on a formal display and we usually take a few minutes to discuss it. This is my juniper procumbens which placed Honorable Mention in the WBC 2004.

Wish I could say that everything you see here is mine, but I had to borrow the scroll from H.Smith. Thanks Howard.

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JTriptow

Thomas,

Sorry I missed the meeting this week. Your tree is beautiful as ever. :-)

Jennifer

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CScott

Very serene scene.

Could you tell me why you placed the tree on the right instead of the left of the display? I see the space on the bottom right of the tree and think the tree opens out to the right - therefore the scroll should be on the right. Since I don't know much about this and would love to learn more please explain how you came to the decision of the placement of scroll and tree.

I love how the tree shows layers and it not a big blob of green.

Carmen

Thomas_J.

Hi Carmen,
The flow actually is going to the left and not the right as you might think because of the space you mentioned. The picture should have been taken at eye level in order to see this. Someone else took the picture and was probably in a hurry to consider the eye level approach.

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agraham

Hi Thomas,

I like your tree and display very much.The left/right flow question has me confused though.You say the flow is to the left,yet you have the tree planted to the left side of the pot?It doesn't seem particularly unbalanced to me but it sounds like it should be.

andy

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mike_p

Thomas, I have to go along with Carmen and Andy on this. With the tree on the left side of the pot, the flow has to move to the right, IMHO.

Mike

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Thomas_J.

Mike, Andy,
I see what you see. I will admit the tree is probably a bit off center, something that will have to be corrected, but not as much as it looks like in the top picture, again probably because of the angle it was taken and the lighting at that point. Here is a better picture taken at the proper eye level.
As I said it is off center a bit and could probably be moved a bit to the right to encance the leftward flow. Sometimes you get used to looking at something so much that you can't see what is otherwise obvious to others.

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bonsaishane

Hi Thomas,
Very nice work.
Shane

Thomas_J.

Hi Shane,
Thanks for the comments. I was hoping you would be at the meeting that night to see what you thought of it in person (aside from moving it a bit to the right) and to offer any suggestions that might improve it even more. The back side and some on the left is reverting back to juvenile foliage, which is making the tree look like a mixed breed, and it also needs to be layerd a bit more in those areas. The summer has been such a scorcher that I relly didn't spend as much time with it as I should have. Maybe now that it's finally starting to cool off.

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